execution-style
Speech parts
1. execution-style - Adjective
2. execution-style - Adverb
Meaning
execution-style (not comparable)
(idiomatic, of a murder) Resembling an execution; with the victim aware, but unable to defend themselves or resist.
execution-style (not comparable)
(idiomatic, of murdering) In a manner resembling that of an execution.
Examples
DeMain said he was told the motive for the execution-style murder of the AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash in December 1975 "allegedly was her knowledge that Leonard Peltier had shot the two agents, as he was convicted."
Durst, 76, has pleaded not guilty to charges he shot Susan Berman execution-style in the back of the head in December 2000.
“The goal of this exercise was to execute a short notice, agile combat execution-style deployment and generation,” said Maj. Brannan Studley, 35th Fighter Wing director of wing inspections.
He was killed execution-style at point-blank range while his colleagues were allowed to escape.
Two eyewitness accounts supported the claims of an execution-style murder.